Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
ROALD DAHLI think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
-
-
When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
ROALD DAHL -
And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
ROALD DAHL -
Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
ROALD DAHL -
Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
ROALD DAHL -
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
ROALD DAHL -
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
ROALD DAHL -
There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
ROALD DAHL -
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
ROALD DAHL -
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
ROALD DAHL -
What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
ROALD DAHL -
It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
ROALD DAHL -
You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
ROALD DAHL -
The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
ROALD DAHL -
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
ROALD DAHL -
Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
ROALD DAHL